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Old 08-01-2012
The 'eval' is unnecessary there, and frankly eval is a giant security hole. If you somehow end up with `rm -Rf ~/` in your File variable, eval will run that!

What you really needed was double quotes.

Code:
sed -e "s/oldwordstring/${File}/" usertemplate.txt>user_prefs.txt

I take it my awk solution didn't work for you. In what way did it not work?
# 9  
Old 08-01-2012
Your awk command should work and I plan on looking into it a little more today. I just found a way to perform what I wanted with the sed command which was a little quicker for me yesterday in terms of familiarity.

I appreciate all the help though.
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